The Loth-Kati

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Like, they go to some random moon to commune with an ancient Force deity, and Sabine trips over what at first glance appears to be a rock, but upon further inspection, it turns out to be the kriffing Mask of The Mandalore. Just lying there. In the dirt. The original symbol of Mandalorian Rulership is half buried by sand on some nowhere rock.

Hera decides to go to the local markets on some Outer Rim planet while Kanan and Ezra do some Force nonsense in an abandoned temple and drags Sabine with her. In this run-down antique shop Sabine sees the most famous tapestry of Mandalore the Binder’s life story, one woven by Mandalore the Binder himself.

They go to Jedha to complete a trial for the Guardians of the Whills and because these things seem to take forever, Sabine goes to a restaurant to get lunch. She trips over an old man on her way back to her table with her food, and before she can finish apologizing he just smiles at her and tells her it's alright before walking away. Later, once they are all back on the ship Sabine opens her bag only to realize there's a holocron in it. She gets Ezra to open it and it's Tarre Vizsla's holocron.

Cut to a scene where it’s Ezra saying he doesn’t want to be a Mandalorian only it’s Sabine

The Chosen One?!?

I don’t want to be The Chosen One?!

Meanwhile…somewhere Fenn Rau is giddy.

Like he’s laughing at Indiana Sabine’s misfortune and stuff and then he turns around and accidentally fufills an ancient Mandalorian prophecy.

Bo-Katan is standing off to the side feeling so confused and maybe a bit mad because like. Her redemption quest. Her ambition to lead the Mandalorian people to a brighter future. Like, it’s been taken over by a teenager who doesn’t want it.

Also, her nephew is making #TeamEzra shirts for no other reason than to annoy her.

Well, Korkie is just so happy to see the Jedi and Mandalorians working together…for reasons.

Bo-Katan isn’t exactly religious, or superstitious even, but the overwhelming evidence DOES seem to point to the destiny Wren girl, so even tho it BURNS she has to try and convince her to actually do it because after all this is For Mandalore.

Also I'm imagining the Mythosaur thing, but in that Office episode format, like

Bo-Katan, to the camera, emotionlessly: When Wren showed up last week with her 37th piece of mythical Mandalorian history, I said sarcastically that all that was left was for her to ride the Mythosaur.

Bo-Katan: In hindsight, it's almost funny.

Bo-Katan:

Korkie’s recording. Him and his fellow former cadets are the documentary crew.

and then alrich is just like

No, you see. This is fine. This is GREAT actually because who better to catalogue extremely important artifacts from Mandalorian culture than Alrich Wren, Mandalore’s premiere artist who fights with his art?!

She’s found sets of Neo-Crusader Armor, she’s found Taung relics, she’s found ancient Jakelian proto-beskads. She’s somehow found important symbols for every Mand’alor from Mandalore the Hammerborn to Mandalore the Pretty Okay. She’s done all of this by accident.

I think she wins Korkie’s eternal loyalty when she brings back the cubist portrait of Satine from Maul’s creepy cave shrine.

Mand'alor the Redeemed?

Because of her past with the Duchess, of course, but also there's that Mythosaur - Living Waters - traditional Mandalorian redemption connection?

And most of the Mand'alors decide that when they join the Manda, one of the things on their bucket list will be to find Mand'alor the Vand'alor and ask what "Vand'alor" means.

Each time, they expect some incredible answer, some great moment of revelation. Lots of them have formed theories and secretly hope to have them confirmed.

You know what we’re ignoring? The glorious Sabezra potential of this AU. Like, both Ezra and Sabine have fulfilled the requirements for several Mandalorian prophecies, and because Mandos cannot get along for more than five minutes there’s a mini civil war brewing between their followers (Ezra and Sabine are just so done at this point. So done). So they latch on to the first suggestion someone gives for peace and get married for politics (Korkie suggested it, Bo-Katan smacked him upside the head).

And like this could go platonic or romantic depending on how you want to read it. But like those same Mandalorians a millennia later have heard stories about Mand’alor the Vand’alor’s fiercesome Jedi husband who tamed the Mythosaur, and they finally meet him in the afterlife (Ezra as a co-leader of Mandalore spends half his time being one with the Force and half his time chilling in the Manda) and he’s just some guy. A string bean. A noodle.

Okay, 1) I love all of this.

2) What if the marriage of convenience plot happens in the same week as the rest of the Heroes of Mandalore plotline? Hera sends her Space Husband and Space Son off to Mandalore to assist her Space Daughter and the Space Children come back married and the co-rulers of Mandalorian Space. Zeb is confused.

2) Oh my gosh. “Well, Hera, you said to recruit them, so…they’re definitely on board with us now!”

3) lolol that reminds me that chaoticdumbassrogue had Ezra name the Zillobeast “Clarence”, so “Tim” feels really on brand to me for the Mythosaur.

HAH YES THE MANDO MENAGERIE

ok but do they get married PRE-Alrich-rescue or POST-Alrich-rescue, because I'm a hopeless shipper forever stuck on the "with her" line and the comedic possibilities are great either way. Like, if it happens BEFORE they rescue him, then it could go like:

Alrich: Are you with Sabine?

Ezra: Yeah I'm with her!

Ezra, on instinct: I mean, I'm not WITH HER, with her, I'm...

Ezra: ...married to her.

Ezra: I forgot about that for a minute.

Alrich:

Ezra:

Alrich: how do you forget—

Ezra: it's been a crazy week.

BUT if it happens AFTER they rescue him, then we have a situation where like. he JUST explained to her father that he was ONLY FRIENDS with her. and now they're planning a short-notice wedding. and every year for the next, oh, 50 years, at the Clan Wren Family Reunion, Alrich tells an even MORE comically exaggerated story of the first time he met Ezra and how Ezra VERY INSISTENTLY explained the JUST FRIENDSHIP, complete with the same punchline every time:

Thrawn: And be alert. Where there is Ezra , you will always find Sabine  not far behind.

That actually happened.

Thrawn spent an inordinate amount of time studying this particular piece of Lothal Rebel art, which is, ahem, a starbird with a lothcat at its heart.

Then, in Through Imperial Eyes, Thrawn ascertained that loth cats rendered by Sabine must’ve meant that Ezra was wearing that helmet.

Later on, he deduced that they were working together during Flight of the Defender, and then during A Fool’s Hope even Rukh knew how to subdue the Jedi. That’s info he could’ve only gotten from Thrawn.

So then - in this moment here - when Thrawn gave his patented pre-battle lecture to Ezra, he threatened Lothal and then Sabine specifically (not the whole Ghost crew, not Ezra’s “friends” or “family” but Sabine), just to gauge Ezra’s reaction, and Ezra totally lost his cool.